diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fd1132fda..2a5dc8c65 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ AC_INIT([transmission],[user_agent_prefix],[https://github.com/transmission/tran
 AC_SUBST(USERAGENT_PREFIX,[user_agent_prefix])
 AC_SUBST(PEERID_PREFIX,[peer_id_prefix])
 
+IT_PROG_INTLTOOL
+
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
@@ -553,19 +555,19 @@ dnl a problem and the old version was working fine for you,
 dnl it should be safe to re-edit 0.40 back down to 0.23
 
 use_nls=no
-if test "x$enable_nls" = "xyes" ; then
-    use_nls=yes
-    m4_ifdef([IT_PROG_INTLTOOL],
-             [IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0],[no-xml])],
-             [AC_MSG_ERROR("--enable-nls requires intltool to be installed.")])
-    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libintl.h])
-    GETTEXT_PACKAGE=transmission-gtk
-    AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)
-    AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([GETTEXT_PACKAGE],["$GETTEXT_PACKAGE"],[Gettext package])
-    AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
-    transmissionlocaledir='${prefix}/${DATADIRNAME}/locale'
-    AC_SUBST(transmissionlocaledir)
-fi
+#if test "x$enable_nls" = "xyes" ; then
+#    use_nls=yes
+#    m4_ifdef([IT_PROG_INTLTOOL],
+#             [IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0],[no-xml])],
+#             [AC_MSG_ERROR("--enable-nls requires intltool to be installed.")])
+#    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libintl.h])
+    GETTEXT_PACKAGE=transmission-gtk
+    AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)
+    AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([GETTEXT_PACKAGE],["$GETTEXT_PACKAGE"],[Gettext package])
+#    AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
+#    transmissionlocaledir='${prefix}/${DATADIRNAME}/locale'
+#    AC_SUBST(transmissionlocaledir)
+#fi
 AC_SUBST(INTLLIBS)